All Employment articles – Page 4
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Atanor chemical plant in Argentina shuttered
Toxic releases have led to the indefinite closure of the facility after a decade-long legal fight
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Brexit could push Japanese pharma out of the UK
Warnings that Japanese R&D investment in the UK is endangered by plans to leave the EU
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Pfizer gambles on $14bn Medivation deal
Cancer specialist likely just one target in hunt for marketed drugs to offset patent expiries
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Reprieve for some Australian climate scientists facing the axe
Number of climate scientists to lose jobs cut from 100 to 40
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Job cuts at Takeda, Boehringer and Arena
Hundreds of positions eliminated as companies re-evaluate R&D
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Fibrant to quit US operations
Caprolactam supplier will shed hundreds of jobs, while operations in Europe and China continue
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Dow to cut 2500 jobs in Corning merger
Firm will close silicones manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Japan as it absorbs former joint venture
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J&J to buy Vogue for haircare range
$3.3bn deal expands Johnson & Johnson’s consumer products segment
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Vertellus enters bankruptcy
Chemical maker files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its US operations and plans to auction the business
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DuPont shutters US plant where leak killed four workers
La Porte plant will not reopen after fatal methyl mercaptan leak in 2014
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Sanction lift triggers investment in Iran
Ambitious state plans and openness to foreign companies could combine to revive Iran’s chemical industry
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BASF to cut 350 jobs in plant science research
Company will also close field trial sites in Hawaii, India and Puerto Rico
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Oil slump reverberates in chemicals
Collapse in crude prices has complex and mixed effects on markets for derivative chemicals
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BP to cut 7000 jobs
UK oil company reduces its workforce to cut costs in response to low oil price and charges from Deepwater Horizon incident
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J&J to cut 3000 jobs in medical devices unit
Cost-saving cuts will help ‘accelerate the pace of innovation’, company claims
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Monsanto adds 1000 to job cut tally
Cost reduction plan brings cuts up to 16% of global workforce by the end of 2018
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DuPont cuts go deep in Delaware
Following its merger with Dow, DuPont will terminate 1700 positions in Delaware, US, as part of a cost-cutting drive
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Dow and DuPont mega-merger heralds break-up of giants
New firm will split itself in speciality, agrichemical and materials businesses with R&D taking a hit from cost savings